Reward

Famous quotes containing the word reward:

“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering- pot and pruning-knife.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)

“When I think of him, and his six sons, and his son-in-law, not to enumerate the others, enlisted for this fight, proceeding coolly, reverently, humanely to work, for months if not years, sleeping and waking upon it, summering and wintering the thought, without expecting any reward but a good conscience, while almost all America stood ranked on the other side,—I say again that it affects me as a sublime spectacle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)